2 new MATE ISOs are available (https://artixlinux.org/download.php), a standard issue and a desktop edition, both with a nice, dark GTK theme. The desktop one is beefier and comes with a lot more packages, most important of which are:
mpv
gimp
mcomix
inkscape
veracrypt
handbrake
firefox
libreoffice-fresh
sylpheed
geany
wine
lollypop
audacity
brasero
openshot
syncthing-gtk
tigervnc
These are marked as
community ISOs, meaning they're not officially supported like
base and
lxqt.
You mean a base and a mate or is the one a MATE instraller and the other has the full live desktop?
I havent downloaded and had a look yet but i would say its more of a minimal install the standard iso. Less packages than the full blown experience of Mate with shiteloads of packages.
Very cool, i dont mind mate as a desktop. I might have to convert once i get a bit more ram.
I downloaded the full iso and gave a try live. It is certainly a well thought out and very professional looking desktop experience. Definitely a thumbs up from me on your implementation
@nous. Well done....I would recommend this for all the fans of Mate. I am still a Plasma fan however.....just because. ;)
Best regards.
Well done nous. It's snappy as a desktop - looks really great. And the power button! It let's you log out, reboot etc instead of just shutting the machine down. This I like alot!
Nice work virtually how I've been using mate for a year.
The mate menu has now been dropped to AUR which is a shame it would be nice if you could add it to the Artix repro, as it really finishes the mate desktop.
How come the Brisk menu isn't that popular with Mate users? Is there some inherent bugs that come with it?
It's not in official repos. We don't build ISOs with AUR packages, not even community editions.
Will try it out when i get hold of my laptop which is 1500 kilometers away from me now ;). I miss linuxing!!@@@
I don't have a smartphones so laptop with linux is my only electronic gadget i use (apart from digital camera).
Can't wait to try it out when i am gonna have my laptop back.
Nice stuff
I tried installing the Maté ISO from the download page on Virtualbox: It failed at install, at the mkcpioinit stage.
btw, the installer & Live cd are nice, I hope you will maintain it.
I've just installed this new Mate ISO (not the full one). Installation went without a hitch and everthing is working that was installed. However, when coming to upgrade the packages using
pacman -Syyu
it downloaded all the packages but then wouldn't upgrade them due to conflicts.
I think it's back to the drawing board with this one.
Edit: Never mind, it's just updated.
The problem should be solved.
Try again.
I did try again before you put your message on here. It updated.
I never liked mate but I have to admit this one is pretty nice.
That trick with pacman downloading and pacman eating the dots, I think I've seen it before on archlabs, how do we do this. Is it a modification in pacman code?
Dark themed MATE desktop Artix releases (http://sysdfree.wordpress.com/262)
Add the line ILoveCandy to your etc/pacman.conf file. I put it in the # Misc options section, just to keep the file orderly. ;)
Best regards.
I tried to install on virtualbox today
Nice work. Very slick for a mate ISO.
I chose option to Install "Swap with hybernate" just like it was a laptop.
if fails at the very with the following message:
Boost.Python error in job "initcpiocfg".
<class 'OSError'>
[Errno 5] Input/output error: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'
Traceback:
File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/initcpiocfg/main.py", line 173, in run
modify_mkinitcpio_conf(partitions, root_mount_point)
File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/initcpiocfg/main.py", line 162, in modify_mkinitcpio_conf
write_mkinitcpio_lines(hooks, modules, files, root_mount_point)
File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/initcpiocfg/main.py", line 70, in write_mkinitcpio_lines
with open(hostfile, "r") as mkinitcpio_file:
Trying this did not help (although the commaend executed successfully)
sudo chroot /tmp/calamares-root-bjwq6j4h/
mkinitcpio -p linux
Hey!
Finally, after several hours of battle vs calamares installer in mate-iso i won!
I had same issue as
The problem is that the installer trying to do something with the file
/etc/mkinicpio.confI did not see what and how. I just looked at the file that causes this error.
And then I saw an incredible thing:
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Wait wut? Why installer try to do something with live system files omg
well, I decided to check that file is it really can not be read
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After a light shock, I decided to try the only thing that occurred to me - open the file in the editor and leave it open.
Ok, let`s open terminal and write:
sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
hmmm, and let`s open another terminal tab and launch calamares installer as i saw somewhere in this forum:
sudo -E calamares -d
with this command i see the calamares jobs log messages, and it`s cool 8)
And it was a victory !!!
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an opened file did not allow to overwrite it with third-party applications
Calamares -d is not just for console logs? (debug)
I don't see how that could fix the problem. Easy to test, it fails on virtualbox
I remember the installed system is mounted on /tmp, and that in /tmp/calamares*/etc, the mkinitcpio.conf was ok.
Maybe the pb you saw was a failed link within the calamares code?
I was boot from usb, that corrupted
mkinitcpio.conf i saw only after calamares fail.
i close calamares and then was look into
/etc
My steps:
1) Open terminal
2) sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
- leave it open, didnt change didnt close
4) open new tab in terminal
5) run calamares installer sudo -E calamares -d
since the file is open from root, the installer cannot change it. probably and hope so ;D 8)
or maybe i dont understand what you ask. You want find that bad thing which it creates?
I can try to reproduce this without opened file (calamares can change it) and with opened (calamares cant change it).
In both variants i can write all debug to file with something like this:
sudo -E calamares -d>>file.txt
Calamares logs can be found in
/root/.cache/Calamares/Calamares/Calamares.log
/var/log/Calamares.log